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Broadway Avenue (Saskatoon)

Street in Saskatchewan, Canada

Street in Saskatchewan, Canada

Broadway Avenue is an arterial road and commercial street in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. It begins at the east end of the Broadway Bridge and continues south for about 4 kilometres until terminating at a cul-de-sac in the Avalon neighbourhood. The commercial portion, and the section usually referred to colloquially as "Broadway," is composed of the five blocks running south from the Broadway Bridge to 8th Street East, as well as the adjoining blocks east and west. This section forms the Broadway Business Improvement District and is a popular shopping and cultural destination in Saskatoon, featuring numerous restaurants and bars, boutique shops, local businesses, and annual street festivals such as the Saskatoon Fringe Theatre Festival.

History

This original portion of Broadway Avenue, between the bridge and 8th Street, was the original main commercial street of the town of Nutana, prior to amalgamation with Saskatoon in 1906. It was also the location of the city's first elementary school, Victoria School. The original stone school was relocated to the grounds of the University of Saskatchewan, but the replacement school built in the 1930s still stands.

Broadway Avenue was so named because of its width, and teams of more than two horses could do U-turns without having to go around the block.

The southernmost portion of Broadway Avenue in Avalon was intended to have a boulevard and be named Royal Avenue.{{cite book

Broadway Avenue ceased to be the main commercial street when the present downtown was established with the arrival of the Qu'Appelle, Long Lake and Saskatchewan Railway in 1890.{{cite web | access-date = 2009-09-21 | url-status=dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110721021138/http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/de/saskatoon100/students/crosswords/PDF%20SUpport%20Docs/SaskatoonHistoryto1914.pdf | archive-date = 2011-07-21 |access-date = 2009-09-24}} It began a period of revitalization that brought renewed commercial activity and gentrification to the Nutana neighbourhood.{{cite web |access-date = 2009-09-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080605050255/http://www.planetsmag.com/content.php?vn=6&is=3&an=431&sc=6 |archive-date = June 5, 2008

Five Corners

Five Corners intersection

Broadway Avenue's intersection at 12th Street East is often referred to as "Five Corners"; it was originally laid out in 1883. The north extension of Broadway, later renamed University Drive, followed the Batoche Trail parallel to the river, unlike the north-south orientation of Broadway south of 12th Street. The intersection was connected to the "Long Hill" route along Saskatchewan Crescent to the Traffic Bridge, which opened in 1907. This connection created a five-point intersection, and it became an access point to downtown with the completion of the Broadway Bridge in 1932.{{cite book

In later years, access from University Drive and the western part of 12th Street East was cut off, changing Five Corners into a standard 3-way junction. The moniker remains, however, and an interpretive sculpture was erected in 2009 by the design studio of Lee-Koopman.{{cite web |access-date = 2009-09-20 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110706184206/http://lee-koopman-projects.ca/fivecorners/ |archive-date = 2011-07-06 |url-status=dead

References

References

  1. Savage, Candace. (2019). "Strangers in the House: A Prairie Story of Bigotry and Belonging". Greystone Books.
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